The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
BENJAMIN HAYDONFortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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All government is an evil, but, of the two form’s of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
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Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
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If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
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